War for Chornobyl: The Ukrainian won the court in the creators of the cult series that showed his recording

To spread: Andriy Priymachenko defended his copyright in the US court. It was used without permission in the Chornobyl series. After many years of struggle, the parties concluded an agreement on conditions that are not disclosed. Ukrainian author Andriy Prymachenko reported the completion of a court case against the US company HBO. The New York court was on his side in the conflict due to the illegal use of a fragment of his work in the Chornobyl series.

According to Primachenko, the HBO agreement was able to conclude after a long process that lasted more than six years. Although the details of the contract cannot be made public due to privacy, the author confirmed that he had achieved the restoration of justice. "This is a significant precedent when it was possible to defend the copyright of a Ukrainian in the US court in a case with one of the world's biggest media companies," he wrote.

The essence of the dispute was that in the first episode of the Chornobyl Ministry of Minneral, HBO used an audio recording from Prymachenko's work - real telephone talks of firefighters on the night of the accident on April 26, 1986 - without the author's consent. After several appeals to the company demanding to regulate the violation, he received "bold answers", so he decided to go to court. "When I was taking this case in 2019, I did not imagine how long and difficult this process would be.

Two years of the pandemic and more than three years of a full -scale invasion of the Russians made the case even more difficult," Prymachenko said. The author thanked LAW Net's law company, which helped him in the process. Under the post of Prymachenko, dozens of comments with words of support, including journalists, activists and colleagues at the shop, appeared. "These years and efforts, apparently, were worth it," one of the subscribers wrote.

"You have created a precedent for all Ukrainian artists," another added. "We want to just wake up from this, but it is not a dream, which means we work on," - wrote the man Nadi Dorofeeva. Recall that the Chernobyl ministeral was released on screens in 2019 and received numerous awards, including the Emmy and Golden Globe Awards. However, even then, there was a critic about the violation of the rights of real people whose stories were used without consent.